A helicopter hauls Eucalyptus trees out of the the San Dieguito River Park along the Del Dios Highway, between Escondido and Rancho Santa Fe, Thursday morning. It is part of the Del Dios Gorge Habitat Restoration and Recreation Project.
— Howard Lipin

Julian Reinstein, a kindergartner at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, pushes a cart through Target, looking for items, for a family in the Embrace-a-Family Hanukkah gift program. Approximately $150 was spent on each of 10 families with money raised ...
— Howard Lipin / San Diego Union-Tribune

Edgar Mendez, a second grader at Smythe Elementary in San Ysidro helps to plant a grapefruit tree as part of a program sponsored by San Diego-based Stretch Island Fruit Co. and the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation to help raise awareness ...
— John R. McCutchen

Ninth grader Sione Tuiklovatu wears a traditional Chinese king's hat at Hilltop High School in a Mandarin class taught by Marianne Yang. The Sweetwater Union High School District's connection with China would grow dramatically under an early proposal to bring ...
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David Engelman, who lives in North Park, comes just about every day to Bird Park at 28th Street and Pershing to practice his banjo. The Rhode Island native has played for about six years can sometimes even be found at ...
— John Gibbins / John Gibbins/Union-Tribune

Escondido's newest public art project titled "New Leaf," by Poway artist Dan Dykes, was installed this morning on the Centre City Parkway median strip, just north of its intersection with Felicita Avenue. Rick Topolski, of Crown Steel Mfg., of San ...
— Charlie Neuman

The USS Milius (right) sits in front of a San Diego sunset aglow in her holiday lights at the first-ever Surface Navy Holiday Lights event at the Naval Base San Diego. The public was invited to drive past the ships ...
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